What It's Like To Be A Sociopath: One Woman Reveals All

We're so accustomed to seeing psychopaths and sociopaths in films that it's easy to forget that real people identify themselves in these groups - some suffering from recognised mental health disorders.

In the above video, author of Confessions of a Sociopath M.E Thomas talks about her life.

Thomas says she identifies as a sociopath as she has a "lack of empathy and a lack of conscience." She says growing up, she felt various rules and norms in society didn't apply to her.

"Today, the terms “sociopath” and “psychopath” are used interchangeably — often as a nice way of avoiding “crazy” — yet in recent years the difference between “psychopath” and “sociopath” has become as widely pronounced as the scientific difference between shell shock and post-traumatic stress disorder, which is to say it’s massive.

"Sociopathy, while severely the less understood of the two disorders, can be congenital or acquired. Psychopathy, meanwhile, is generally considered a confluence of genetic and chemical imbalances.

"Psychopaths lack the proper neurological frameworks to develop a sense of ethics and morality. Sociopaths interact with their social worlds in a meaningful way, but their moral compasses needed a massive tune-up yesterday," he writes.